S05E05 MacGregor Point Provincial Park Review
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- We camped at MacGregor Point Provincial Park July 6th to the 9th, 2023. We've been camping at MacGregor Point since the 80s. This park is near and dear to our hearts. For years we'd go with a big group of friends and camp at group site 501. We'd have 12 adults and 18 kids having a blast. On this trip we hiked most of the trails, checked out the beaches and all the park facilities and headed into town checking out the beach and marina in Port Elgin and the beach and market in Southampton.
00:00 Intro
03:30 Arriving at the park/new water fill station
03:59 Arriving at our campsite
04:15 Park overview
07:27 Campsites
10:16 Park amenities
12:52 Cheryl's Loo Review
13:41 Cell phone reception
14:04 Hiking and biking the trails
18:38 Dump station
18:58 Visiting Southampton
20:34 Visiting Port Elgin
21:57 Sunset Point
22:38 Coles Notes
26:44 Park Rating
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Cell Phone Service: Bell, Telus, Koodo & Virgin Mobile - cell service was poor. Dropped calls. Lots of buffering. Very unreliable. If you've been to this park please let us know your experience with cell service, especially if your with a service provider different from the ones mentioned.
We just bought our first trailer, we’ve never camped before and these videos have been everything!! I’m learning so much!!
We are visiting this park for the first time this season thanks to your review and we even have the same site.
A nice, big, private site! Enjoy your time there!
We are camping there this July too. I'm nervous there are bears active in the park 😮 we love your videos!!@@CampingwiththeColes
Great video as always. Thanks for sharing.
MacGregor Park is a favourite, thanks for the video.
Those sites look really nice. Thanks for all you do. Appreciate it! :)
Great review!!! Looking forward to trying this park out. Just got back from Selkirk park and took your advice on site 88 it was great for the dog. THX CHEERS !!!!
We’ve been to MacGregor over 30 times and thought we’ve seen everything. Next time we’ll attempt to find the old cabin in the woods. Thanks for the videos.
Another great review and this one is an eye-opener for us. Will be checking this out
You guys are great…..!
Gives me a chance to see beautiful places I may not get a chance to visit….
But I feel like I’m there when I watch your videos….
You’re work is greatly appreciated….! 😎👍
Thanks so much. We love making the videos and we appreciate the support. Happy camping!
Always a great thorough review. I agree, MacGregor is beautiful, and the sunsets...oh the sunsets.
Thanks for your great campgrounds reviews. It’s so valuable to see the different campsites with your camera, and helps us plan our trips.
Unfortunately, we need decent cell service in order to go camping (for work, and staying in touch with family).
Between Point Farms, Inverhuron and MacGregor, do you happen to remember which one is best for Bell cell reception?
Thanks so much in advance! Have a great 2024 camping season!
We're glad you're finding our park reviews helpful. For cell service, I know that Point Farms and MacGregor were not very reliable. At least at Point Farms you can go to the registration office and sit at the picnic table out front and use the free wifi. I can't remember how it was at Inverhuron. Sorry.
LOL! That evil laugh as you went over that hill. 😅
She's been hearing that laugh every time we go to Macgregor. She keeps asking me to go the regular way but I love her reaction to the hill too much. The kids used to play it up so much and laugh their heads off as she screamed going down the hill.
One of our favorite camp grounds. We ditch the little ones with the grandparents and go birding every spring here. Beautiful spot. This spring we had the whip-er-will sitting right in our site every night.
Keep up the great videos!
Loves this park. We took our granchildren last summer for a week and they loved it. We have gone the lastcouple of years and this year again for Thanksgiving
This was also our goto park when we used to camp with our kids and tent trailer over 30 years ago. Now, as retirees with our new travel trailer, we went back sans kids in June. It was like going to a new park.! We loved it! Took our bikes and made use of the trails and explore areas of the park we hadn't seen in so long. Our site was private, yet roomy. Even though we don’t have a dog, we enjoyed the dog beach. This park will continue to be one of our goto parks. Thanks for the updated review!
Great video. Park looks empty, strange because it's hard to get a site. MacGregor Point is one of my favorite.
It was pretty full. I try to film the campsites in the early afternoon when lots leave and the replacements haven't arrived yet. That way you can see the site without it being full.
So many marvelous options! Privacy would be my preference and looks some great choices. Can sure see why it is a favourite...just wonderful! Bruce and Otis
We were there the same time as you were. I saw you out riding your bikes but by the time I realized it was you it was too late to say hi. We also loved the park. Surprised you didn't mention about the wandering bear sign. If you've never tried Port Elgin fish and chips I highly recommend it.
Never tried the fish and chips there. Thanks for the tip.
Video edits just get better and better! Love it, and the transition at Sunset Point for Jax 22:22
Thanks! It's a slow process buy I'm trying to get better.
Thank you for the review. I have MacGregor Point on my bucket list. Enjoy your 5 park trip. I’m looking forward to the reviews. I’ve been to Driftwood. Love it. Had a site on the water, back then I had a tent. The goal is to go back and enjoy again, also on the water, with a power station! I did Mikisew last year for a weekend. I agree with you on returning for a longer stay to really get a feel of the park. Take care!!
Agreed, this park has some of the best pull through sites of any park and one of the best park stores around.
Never been to this park. My friends have and love it. We have kayaks so have picked other parks but you have changed my mind that park looks amazing. We are going to Mikisew in September so I look forward to your up coming review.
Thanka for the great review, have to still try this park our go to is Inverhuron just down the street!
Can't wait to get back to the provincial parks next summer after the dust and being stacked on top of each other here in the south west (totally worth it to skip a brutal Canadian winter though lol)
The south west sounds pretty good right about now.🏖️
It has been good but not tropical, its like early September back there. Cold mornings and nights but 20-23 during the day. Dec and Jan the coldest but its noticeably warming up now and will get into the 90's by March@@CampingwiththeColes
Hello! Two weeks ago I was camping at Samuel de Champlain P.P. (Sammy D.) with my family. This park has been our go to since my kids were little and now I am bringing in the grandkids. To my surprise and delight I saw your Camping with the Coles sign and saw Ben walking your pup. I am a Ontario Provincial Parks enthusiast, and have spent much of my time exploring new parks and areas. I have also viewed many of your videos which have been helpful in choosing where to go next. Note: my daughter had a good chuckle and my reaction to seeing you there! My fav RUclipsrs!
That was our first time at Sammy D. You're very lucky to have that park as your go to park. It definitely moved into our top 10 Ontario Parks. We had a great time there.
Watching from Bon Echo (on Rogers network of course LOL). Thanks for sharing this part of your lives. Great info and good vibes.
On Rogers of course. Thanks for taking time away from your camping to watch our video.
Just missed you. I was there for the long weekend and left on the 3rd!
I go that route too! Just to drive over the cliff!
We do it EVERY time lol!
Thanks!
Great review as always, please enjoy a bevy on the Clarke’s- thanks for all you do!
Wow! Thanks so much. You're the first person to give us a super thanks. If you'd like a fridge magnet and sticker just email us your mailing address to campingwiththecoles@gmail.com and we'll mail them out to you.
We had hoped to go to Macgregor ( a fav of ours ) in Sept, but we needed 3 sites close together.....nothing available.....so we are heading to Inverhuron. We've been there quite a few years ago, so looking forward to seeing it again.
I and my family have been going to MacGregor Park for 3 generations now my first trip I was 3 months old and I have loved that park ever since from tower trail to sunset point and all the trails in between so much to see and do there. My favourite memory of MacGregor is when my family and the naturalist from the park went on an "Owl Prowl" which is where we walk down a trail and call in owls using owl calls and this one time we got them calling back to the song "who are you" by The Who was a hoot pardon the pun. we enjoy the seasonal winter camping every year and have been for 12 years now a great way to store the trailer over winter and still be able to use it. definitely would highly recommend it if you are ever thinking about trying winter camping out. Ps love the videos! I always look for your guy's videos on the parks when I am planning my trips. I just came back from a week at Kettle Lakes Provincial Park and loved that park would highly recommend that park to you guys lots to do there.
Thanks for the Kettle Lakes tip. We haven't made it there yet.
Where is the road you were driving and scaring Cheryl on haha I wanna try this road. Made me laugh how much a kick Ben got out of it. Something I would do too.
I'd love to know this too. My boyfriend and I are going there this fall and I'd definitely take that route to check it out lol
@outdoorAdventurer The roads just outside the park It's called Bruce Saugeen Townline Rd just passed the intersection of hwy 21 and 11 cross paths North Bruce is where the intersection is enjoy it's like a poor man's wonderland lol
We did the winter cabin thing at MacGregor this past winter. We've done Pinery, Point Pelee and MacGregor. MacGregor was our favorite, but wish the visitor centre and park store were open!
We haven't tried a cabin yet. We've camped at Pinery in the winter with the kids and it was great.
Hello! we really enjoyed meeting you both at Mikisew last week (we were your neighbours at site #357) . The kids thought it was so cool that we were at Mikisew for the 2nd year in a row based on your review from 2 years ago and then we were literally 'camping with the coles'. What a coincidence! Appreciate the stickers and fridge magnet too!. Can you help us settle a debate? is your cute dog named Jax or Dax?. Hope you enjoy the rest of your summer and thanks again for all your amazing camping content!
It was nice meeting you too. Our Miniature Golden Doodle is named Jax. Enjoy the rest of your summer. Happy camping!
Your videos are great. Big time camper from many moons ago and wanting to get back in but have been scared off by lack of sites to book. When are you at these campgrounds that are so empty? I only camp in Provincial / National parks but its been 20 years.
The parks often look empty because when we film the campsites we do that in the afternoon during the time that people have left and the new people haven't yet arrived. I try to film empty sites so that you can see the sites better and I'm not recording people that might not want to be recorded. With things like beaches and playgrounds I don't want to be the creepy guy filming the kids. So, I make a concerted effort to try to record with as few people as possible.
I hope you get back into it. Camping is great!
@@CampingwiththeColes thank you for the reply! Makes sense. I can now go back to looking for affordable teardrop and staying up until midnight 6 months ahead to try to book a site!
Happy Camping! Keep up the great content
@@sarkmyth3703 good luck with the trailer search. Booking is 5 months before the date of arrival. Get your trigger finger ready to hit ENTER right at 7:00:00 am. Happy camping!
2:06 Paisley. Been two years now.
You have a good eye!
@@CampingwiththeColes my trailer has been at Saugeen Bluffs for the last few weeks and I have taken that detour many times, 😃
Hey! You guys are in your trailer so much - curious what mattress you use?? I feel like I’m sleeping directly on plywood, and starting to loathe it! Currently have a standard RV mattress with a novaform memory foam topper from Costco.
We replaced the cheap original mattress with a Casper 10" mattress from Costco. It comes in a box and expands like crazy when you open it up. Best decision. We're very comfortable now.
@@CampingwiththeColes we will need to do the same! Maybe you talked about it in your first season, I think it was your channel installing those gas shocks things for under bed storage? If not, you should do a video on mattresses. I can not find a rv mattress on Casper or Costco site- you must have a full length bed size?
@@chantellek3982 yeah we have a full size residential queen mattress.